The way you phrased it reads very much like you started an argument about definitions. I think requiring the title of dictator is not how the term is being use

The way you phrased it reads very much like you started an argument about definitions. I think requiring the title of dictator is not how the term is being used these days, on our side of the late Roman republic. It's more of a duck-typing situation now. I think it's safe to assume the original comment meant it that way.